Suppose I have a large table with a small-cardinality CATEGORY column (say, categories 1..5). I need to sort by an arbitrary (i.e. user-specified) mapping of CATEGORY, something like this: 1 => 'z' 2 => 'a' 3 => 'b' 4 => 'w' 5 => 'h' So when I get done, the sort order should be 2,3,5,4,1. I could create a temporary table with the category-to-key mapping, but is there any way to do this in a single SQL statement? Thanks, Craig -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
